Essays Tagged: "handful"

Homosexuality, Morality, and Human Rights

which, when discussed, tend to raise the temperature of the citizens' proverbial blood. There are a handful of topics that always seem to escalate this temperature to the boiling point among individua ...

(7 pages) 544 6 3.2 Sep/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality

Gun Control

ome of the lawswere made to make the general public feel safer. For instance the governmentbanned a handful of assault riffles when they are not even used for most gun relatedcrimes. The government al ...

(2 pages) 120 0 3.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Dead Poet's Society/Significant experiences

pon them, revealing multiple possibilities that were once left in shadow. In Dead Poet's society, a handful of students discover through the exuberance of their English teacher what kinds of lives the ...

(4 pages) 175 0 4.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

A review of "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant

e words almost interchangeably. In the second stanza he writes, "All that tread the globe are but a handful to the tribes that slumber in its bosom." Instead of referring to death he uses the word "sl ...

(2 pages) 7806 0 4.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

An essay on the reasons to stop the use of racial profiling.

icious people are either black or Hispanic. Racial profiling does more harm daily than is worth the handful of justified arrests it leads to. The nationwide victimization it creates, the ways in which ...

(6 pages) 324 2 3.8 Oct/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Lord Of The Flies : The end of innocence and the "darkness of mans heart" are a consequence of the savage instincts in all people.

es and to viciously obtain any desires you have, not unlike that of World War II. "Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, Perhaps six yard in di ...

(4 pages) 61 2 2.2 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Raise the Red Lantern Reviews the role of the male characters in the chinese film raise the red lanter

the filmmaker portrayed this very well, especially the fact that the master's face was only shown a handful of times throughout the film.Despite sleeping with them every few nights, the master does no ...

(4 pages) 84 1 3.7 Dec/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

"Joey's Morning"

nue. The starlit sky slowly dissolved as a radiant fireball rose. The streets were desolate, only a handful of vehicles rolled down the street in silence. All was quiet, children rested their expandin ...

(1 pages) 55 0 4.5 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

This essay is about the different forms of child abuse.

than two forms of abuse.Child abuse was once viewed as a minor social problem that only affected a handful of U.S. children. In recent years the media and law enforcement has paid close attention to ...

(8 pages) 447 5 4.5 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters > Child Abuse

Analyse the transpostion of one literary text to film, discussing which features of the literary text are cut in the process and which features are focus upon/expanded. I have chosen to analyse chapter One of The English Patient entitled The Villa

drama and the writer of the screenplay and director is Anthony Minghella (1996), the film scooped a handful of the prestigious Academy Awards. The runtime of the movie is 160 minutes and is a UK certi ...

(6 pages) 57 0 2.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

The United Nations: Why it is suffering and how it can be improved.

ism of its peacekeeping forces and the indifference of several prominent nations, just to mention a handful of its notable predicaments. Most of the UN's problems seem to stem from a general lack of r ...

(8 pages) 330 2 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government > United Nations

Review of computer processors and my emphasis.

s of AMD's Athlon XP 3000+Advanced Micro Devices has released its newest Athlon XP processor, and a handful of vendors have already snapped up the new CPU that enables AMD to win its game of "cache up ...

(2 pages) 48 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Ned Kelly and his life.

rne.In Ned's time it was wild, rugged country and life was hard.The best land was held by a handful of wealthy so called squatters.But Ned's family was poor and the only opportunity they h ...

(4 pages) 50 0 2.7 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

World War II.

red. Many of them have good explanations, or just reason as to why they happened. There were also a handful of events that had no rhyme or reason. These are the events the world may never understand. ...

(7 pages) 174 1 3.7 Aug/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

"The Greatest Generation" by Tom Brokaw.

w's book, The Greatest Generation, he describes in a very personal and detailed way, the lives of a handful of World War II veterans, some famous and others unknown, but all had a great impact on our ...

(3 pages) 55 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Capital Punishment.

industrialized countries in the world which continues to execute criminals. Further, it is one of a handful of countries in the world which executes mentally ill persons, persons with very low IQ, and ...

(4 pages) 52 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

Genetically engineered foods and how they are being unjustly attacked. (Obviously pro-GE foods.)

fits."Greenpeace does not lag behind in their attack: "Trade in GE food and crops is dominated by a handful of multinational corporations. It is widely believed that these are the only beneficiaries o ...

(2 pages) 44 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

This essay talks about the effects of televesion on children in america

the latest annual media in the home survey conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center. Only a handful of programs will teach children important skills such as math, reading, science or problem s ...

(3 pages) 62 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

John brown's raid

ohn Brown's raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in October 1859, involved only a handful of abolitionists, freed no slaves, and was over in two days. Although many Northerners conde ...

(1 pages) 61 0 3.5 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

An empirical case study into the Tea Market

e market is ever increasing and there are no shortages of tea manufacturers. Today there are only a handful of tea producers that actually dominate the market i.e. PG Tips, Typhoo and Yorkshire are pr ...

(3 pages) 54 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies